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3. Certification of the question
 

(1) The National Election Commission shall take a decision as to certify or refuse to certify the question within thirty days after the submission of that question. The National Election Commission certifies the question if it satisfies the conditions of the Fundamental Law and of this Act with respect to the question. The question submitted by the organiser may only be certified if the signature sheet meets the statutory prescriptions.


(2) In their resolution certifying the question, the National Election Commission shall determine whether the circumstance specified in subsection (3) of section 8 exists.


(3) Where the circumstance specified in subsection (3) of section 8 comes to existence after that the question has been certified, the National Election Office shall, without delay, notify the organiser in writing by sending him the final resolution providing for it.


(4) The National Election Office shall without delay inform the electors on the official website of elections about the existence of questions having the same content.


This information shall contain


 a) the date on which the final certification of the question having the same content was made,


b) the date on which the signature sheets containing questions with the same content were submitted in pursuance of subsection (1) of section 19,


c) the final result in pursuance of subsection (3) of section 22 of the verification of signatures on signature sheets submitted in pursuance of subsection (1) of section 19 and containing questions with the same content,


d) the date on which the National Assembly took their final decision ordering the referendum by virtue of the second sentence of subsection (1) of Article 8 of the Fundamental Law, relating to referendum initiatives having the same content,


e) the date on which the National Assembly took their decision not to order the referendum by virtue of the second sentence of subsection (1) of Article 8 of the Fundamental Law, relating to referendum initiatives having the same content,


f) the referendum initiatives which have been suspended by virtue of paragraph a) of subsection (2) of section 19/B., and those which have been temporarily ceased by virtue of subsection (1) of section 19/C.


(5) If a final decision under subsection (3) of section 22 of the National Election Commission states that the number of valid signatures is at least two hundred thousand, or if the National Assembly have taken their final decision ordering the referendum by virtue of the second sentence of subsection (1) of Article 8 of the Fundamental Law, no other question with the same content shall be certified.